My background includes study with known custom gun maker and engraver, Roy Vail, Warwick, NY, Anatomy classes at The Art Student League, NYC with Mr. Brickman, portrait painting with Joe Hing Lowe, NYC, Jewelry Engraving with Doug Richardson, Berkley Heights, NJ, awards at Greenwich Village Art Shows, displaying  my work at gun shows since 1975 in New York State, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Connecticut, engraving demonstrations done at local Virginia, Maryland gun shows since 1981, and as an instructor since 2005.